thependulumswings

Today, most everyone falls into one of two camps, regardless of the subject at hand.   Consider opinions on the early departed Rush Limbaugh.  One camp thinks he lived too long and disagreed with his daily takes with vigor.

The more friendly camp continues to miss his daily doses of excellence while he was here on loan from God.

Some think he sized up the Washington/Trump tango perfectly in 2016.  “Washington can’t afford for Trump to succeed.  The gig is up.  If an outsider like Trump can fix messes that they’ve promised but failed to take care of in the past thirty years, then We the People will never vote for the establishment again!”

That was his Trump 1.0 missive.  If Rush were alive today, he’d need more than half of his brain tied behind his back just to make it fair.  His words and Trump’s 2.0 actions are simpatico.

Trump and his closely aligned Team Trump are dismantling the political DC establishment and the established media with a scalpel and a sledgehammer at the same time.

Give a Democrat a fish and he will eat for a day.  Teach a Democrat to fish and he’ll create fishing licenses, tax your rod, identify the fish as endangered, and close the fishing spot for an environmental reason or a COVID season.

Should the fish swim six feet apart?  We digress.

What’s the counterpunch to Trump’s repeated uppercuts landing on the chin?  Take the opposite side of anything he attempts to do.  Castigate him.  Tell America the world is ending and soon.   Yelling loudly isn’t a strategy.

Prices weren’t coming down.  Eggs were going through the roof of the chicken coop.  How about now?  How about the price of oil at the pump?  The CPI number released yesterday was the tamest one in years.

Four weeks ago, we were told our 401ks were worth 200.5k’s and worse.  How about now?

Tariffs were last imposed in the 1920s.  You know what followed?  Run for cover.   Now, countries are coming to make a deal with the Art of the Deal maker.

RFK was a bad hire, said Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.  Sanders gets the most pharma money, and Pocahontas gets the fourth most.  Legislators on the hill like companies that make pills.  Who would possibly be against lower drug costs?  Wait and see.

And now the Qatar plane gift is bribery.  A president can’t accept that!  Plus,  it’s a security risk.  Buy American.  Support Boeing.

Fake News.

The plane is Boeing-made.  The gift goes to the military, not Trump.  The DOD will equip AF-1 with the latest security needed.

Where will Trump strike next?  We don’t know, but he will soon.  He never sleeps.  It’s almost time to impeach.

DOGE shredding the USAID seems like a long time ago.

Rush’s wisdom shredded Washington long ago.

Hopefully, it will live on forever.